Technology and Natural Sciences Doctoral Programme

Doctoral researchers from the following degree programmes belong to the Doctoral Programme for Technology and Natural Sciences:

• Biology
• Geography (physical geography)
• Mathematical Sciences
• Physics and Astronomy
• Technology, Chemistry and Geosciences, starting 1.8.2025 and replacing doctoral degree programmes:
  • Architecture
  • Chemistry
  • Civil Engineering
  • Geosciences and Mining Engineering and Mineral Processing
  • Industrial Engineering and Management
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Process and Environmental Engineering.

Check the study requirements in your own doctoral degree programme!

Activities 2025

• TNS-DP Research Plan Seminar Course. 13.6.2025. Course general description and requirements in this link. (1 ECTS) .
• Inorganic synthesis and characterization. 16.-19.6. 2025 (lectures, hybrid, open for all) (2 ECTS) & 23.-27.6.2025 (experimental part, presence required, limited to max.10 students). (3 ECTS).
• Field identification of boreal aquatic macrophytes and mosses – passing the hidden knowledge. 25.8.2025 - 29.8.2025 (Field course) (4 ECTS). Information and registration-page.
• Writing academic manuscripts for high-quality publications, DP00AU27. 24.9.2025-30.9.2025 (lectures, workshops, hybrid). (2-5 ECTS). NOTE! This course is open only for participants from the Faculty of Technology this year. Detailed information and enrolment (by September 15th) can be found on the course page.
  
• Kaamos Symposium. 3-4 December 2025. (4 ECTS). See PEPPI 750929J.
• TNS-DP Research Plan Seminar Course. 9.12.2025. As a part of LYHTY PhD Day in Hotel Lasaretti. Course general description and requirements in this link. (1 ECTS). Registration page. Please register and send your abstract by November 19, 2025. The date of notification of acceptance is November 24, 2025.

Kvantum Institute

Kvantum Institute is one of the four centres for multidisciplinary research, which promote multidisciplinary research at the University of Oulu in areas of global challenges. Kvantum supports high-quality research and coordinates multidisciplinary research activities and doctoral training particularly in the thematic area "Mitigating climate change and safeguarding biodiversity".

Doctoral programme coordinator

• Jouko Inkeröinen, jouko.inkeroinen(at)oulu.fi
• Contact for questions related to courses and events organised by the doctoral programme

Graduate school coordinator

• Niina Timosaari-Hyry, niina.timosaari(at)oulu.fi
• Contact for general questions related to doctoral training